Habitual Infamy · Suffocation

232 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 8, and 9 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
HABITUAL INFAMY · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 and 50 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 20 sections: 142 keep time, 56 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 195-206.

CHORUS
PART H
PART H
PART T
PART L
PART AM
PART AS
PART BB
PART L
11 groovesBHLBBT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Habitual Infamy?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Habitual Infamy hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Habitual Infamy?

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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